Unidentified Ampak wired connection, what is this?

[JimKiler]

I have a home network with phones, tablets, TV's, BD players, consoles and computers hooked up to it. I have a ASUS RT-AC68U router and it lists one unidentified connection. It is called Ampak and has IP 192.168.1.11 as a wired connection. I cannot figure out what it is. I know what all my wired devices are. But this is not a PC, console, TV or NAS. What could this be?

I told the router to block traffic for this connection and so far everything is still working fine.

 

[JackMDS]

see her - http://www.ampak.com.tw/about.php

My guess is that there is a None recognized Ampak chip in one of your Wireless clients.

 

[JimKiler]

see her - http://www.ampak.com.tw/about.php

My guess is that there is a None recognized Ampak chip in one of your Wireless clients.

I would think that too but why would Asus say it is a wired connection? could it be the modem? I know that is on the WAN side but i am at a loss.

 

[sdifox]

Copy down the mac and walkabout your ir house looking at device stickers?

 

[JimKiler]

Copy down the mac and walkabout your ir house looking at device stickers?

It turned out to be the Honeywell lyric water leak detector which was hiding under the shelves in my unfinished basement utility room. This thing is using wifi so why Asus says it uses a wired connection is beyond me.

 

[Ichinisan]

It turned out to be the Honeywell lyric water leak detector which was hiding under the shelves in my unfinished basement utility room. This thing is using wifi so why Asus says it uses a wired connection is beyond me.

If that client is going through a secondary wireless AP that is wired from the main router, it would appear as a wired client to the main router.

 

[JimKiler]

If that client is going through a secondary wireless AP that is wired from the main router, it would appear as a wired client to the main router.

I can confirm that is not the case. One physical item that i connected to my wifi network and setup via a phone app. As shown on this page: https://yourhome.honeywell.com/en/products/water-alarms/lyric-wi-fi-water-leak-and-freeze-detector

 

[boomerang]

I get a device on my AC-66U that shows up named 'Private' with an IP of 192.168.1.14. It shows as wired, has a MAC ID but there is no such device. If I log into the router and click to view the client list it shows and them almost immediately goes away when the list refreshes automatically. It also shows up in the app on my phone.

Kinda weird.

 

[JimKiler]

I get a device on my AC-66U that shows up named 'Private' with an IP of 192.168.1.14. It shows as wired, has a MAC ID but there is no such device. If I log into the router and click to view the client list it shows and them almost immediately goes away when the list refreshes automatically. It also shows up in the app on my phone.

Kinda weird.

My honeywell lyric did the same thing, it would show but refreshes would remove it. My honeywell lyric does not constantly connect to the router so it makes sense.

 

[Raduque]

I see "phantom" devices all the time on my network. Mostly TVs, tablets and phones. They seem to show up in the clients list even though I think all they do is ping the network to grab the SSID. They don't actually get on my network though, so they just drop off after a while.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I see "phantom" devices all the time on my network. Mostly TVs, tablets and phones. They seem to show up in the clients list even though I think all they do is ping the network to grab the SSID. They don't actually get on my network though, so they just drop off after a while.

I would change your wifi password ASAP. Clients do NOT need to "ping" the router to get the SSID, the router broadcasts the SSID to any clients listening.
If your router is showing "clients" that you don't recognize, it sounds like they have associated with the router, and maybe even pulled an IP address. (Do they show up in the DHCP client lease list?)

 

[Raduque]

I would change your wifi password ASAP. Clients do NOT need to "ping" the router to get the SSID, the router broadcasts the SSID to any clients listening.
If your router is showing "clients" that you don't recognize, it sounds like they have associated with the router, and maybe even pulled an IP address. (Do they show up in the DHCP client lease list?)

Password is fine (It's a 30 character random generated combinations of upper/lower letters, numbers and symbols - impossible to guess). They don't show on the router as clients with IPs, they show up in Windows' Networking map. Can't see any details on the device because it's not actually connected to the network.